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  • Congress has ordered a return of natural quiet at the Grand Canyon, but that's a tough mandate. Air tour operators have long resisted restrictions. With both sides finally working together, the challenge is to measure quiet.
  • In Bar Harbor, Maine, businesses rely on the throngs of tourists who visit Acadia National Park each summer. But too many tourists can be a problem.
  • The Broadway show Breakfast at Tiffany's opened Wednesday in New York, but it was curtains for one understudy. The black-and-white feline apparently refused to follow stage directions.
  • Amid a sudden surge in demand for domestic travel, especially to beach destinations and national parks, decimated airlines are adding service to new markets as they try to inch back to profitability.
  • One Winner, Six Unforgettable Performances



    Celebrating its 40th Anniversary Season, Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, a longtime corporate partner of WGCU, has generously donated season tickets to their Fifth Third Bank Broadway Series! When you make a financial gift of support to WGCU, you’re automatically entered to win a pair of opening night tickets to six National Touring Broadway shows: Some Like It Hot, & Juliet, Back to the Future: The Musical, Mamma Mia!, Kimberly Akimbo, and Moulin Rouge.





    Your support not only helps WGCU continue bringing trusted news and enriching programs to Southwest Florida—it also gives you a front-row seat to Broadway magic, right here at home!
  • Developers paid more than $40 million for the empty space above Christ Church on Park Avenue at 60th Street. The New York Times reports zoning laws allow for a structure taller than the church to be built on its land, and the church can transfer its unused development rights to an adjoining property . The church's new neighbor is expected to be a 51-story tower, with apartments expected to fetch $8,000 per square foot.
  • Today our book reviewer Linda Fasulo looks at an emotionally moving, frequently humorous and truly enlightening memoire by acclaimed poet Richard Blanco…
  • Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a directive issued Thursday evening that DEA boss Terry Cole will assume "powers and duties vested in the District of Columbia Chief of Police."
  • The partial government shutdown hasn't just shuttered museums in Washington, D.C. Across the U.S., and even beyond its borders, artists and the groups supporting them are grappling with the fallout.
  • This episode explores a true-crime anthology and a wonderful contemporary novel.
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